'Justice' Articles
Justice is boundaries, and in a perfectly just world nothing could survive. Nothing could survive in a perfectly just world because nothing could arise. The perfectly ordered reality would be a blank surface, complete void. All creation can have its existence only to the degree that it is an interruption of order. We have reality because order and chaos balance each other.
Please permit the worlds balance. Please permit justice among yourselves, or the only ones left will be people like me and my descendants. Those you call “defective”. Peace is justice. There is no justice in punishment.
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” Dennis Wholey
“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.” Harrison Ford (American actor, b.1942)
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.” Socrates (Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC)
Justice Is Order
What is justice, friends? I think a balance, like the scales of Libra. Consequence somehow in balance. It’s not marginal. Consequence perhaps. People typically relate it to ‘deserving’. Karma. All good, thank you. Today, I intend to offer the premise that justice is order, and in a sense is marginal in that it relies on having a margin. Thus, they even use the term in typing when they say a document is “right justified” meaning it’s centered or ordered on the definition of the right hand margin. Boundaries? Justice is boundaries, and in a perfectly just world nothing could survive.… Seek More
Personal Justice
There are two commonly perceived domains of order and therefore justice. The two domains of order are the personal and the natural. These are not necessarily in agreement nor must they necessarily be, not in any absolute sense. Mostly people are aware of personal order. When we feel our personal sense of justice is not served, we need to interject our order onto societies? Yes, exactly. But let’s take it down in scale. Most people perceive their life to be “unfair” to some degree. It’s so common an attitude to have become a well shared aphorism, “Life is unfair”. It… Seek More
Broken Order
The seeds of other peoples orderly world, or “world order”, are present in our lives in what we call roles, jobs, relationships, self images, social rank and public image, even fashion of dress. It‘s very wide spread. These are not totally negative. They can be helpful to have some loose ideas for how to organize our interactions with each other, but we treat them as absolutes, and thus arise huge social struggles that have absolutely no constructive or life affirming purpose. So, why is personal order broken? Why does personal life seem so chaotic and uncontrollable? Struggle between different ideas of… Seek More
Concern With Justice
People are generally very concerned with justice, or are they? Doesn’t it seem like justice somehow loses some of its letters in translation and becomes a four letter word? A relative justice? Relative justice. Interesting notion. Because are our codes of justice actually set up to aid relating? We are all equal in the world of rules about justice, but my rules are better than yours! Everyone please feel free to conform to “my“ expectations, but none of us would grow that way. Justice gives us the lowest common denominator for relating. True. Does nature seem to support this? If… Seek More
Deliberate Change
So justice, why don’t we have it? Any thoughts? These issues are prevalent now only because we have collectively learned to sustain our food supply. We have luxury and idle time galore. True, and we sacrificed the very self knowledge that would let us use all this free time productively. When the bodies needs are met readily, this doesn’t contradict nature. I would say we are distracted by the very system we support. It’s a paradox. Oh, indeed. It was poorly engineered, but how was it created at all? And who is responsible? Should we sue them? We would be… Seek More
Greater Picture
I feel I should address personal justice more. Everyone ever see a chick in the egg, or a fish? Conceptually the same. When they developed to the stage of having a form as we know forms, they have this sack attached to them. It doesn’t stay and it doesn’t change into anything else, but as they mature the sacks contents are absorbed into the maturing chicken. We all have those bubbles. Collections of psychic energy that are attached to us. They let us absorb information and experience in a way that nurtures our growth, but in time they are to be absorbed.… Seek More
Permit Justice
Peace is justice. There is no justice in punishment. Now, as resistance mounts and dependencies become the rule, it’s an unfortunate but necessary evil that some things be stopped. Sometimes nothing else will work. None yet have such spiritual power that they can put a warring nation to peace by declaration alone. Some dependencies are forced on us to keep us from trying to attain the peace, aren’t they? Exactly. If I make the peace, they won’t provide me with stuff. This is true. Peace gives you no stuff. Peace just gives you the source of all creativity, left intact.… Seek More
